Refrigerator and control method thereof

• Main Authors: ZHU JIANGAO, HOU TONGYAO, MA YANYAN, PENG HANGUANG, GAO TAO, LIU ZHAOXIANG, LIU ZHAOGUANG, PENG HONGLIANG, NING MEIFENG, GAO KUANZHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 06.03.2018
• Subjects: BLASTING; COLD ROOMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT COVERED BY ANY OTHERSUBCLASS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; HEATING; ICE-BOXES; LIGHTING; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; REFRIGERATORS; WEAPONS

The embodiment of the invention provides a refrigerator and a control method thereof, and relates to the field of home appliances, and accuracy of monitoring food materials in the refrigerator throughthe refrigerator can be improved. According to the specific scheme, the moving direction of the target food material is judged according to output signals of a detection unit, and the target food material is the food material moved when a user places the food materials in or takes the food materials out; when the preset shooting triggering condition is met, an image collecting processing unit iscontrolled to shoot the target food material, and the feature of the target food material is extracted according to a shot picture; according to the moving direction of the target food material and the feature of the target food material, an input label is updated and stored; and the input label stored in the refrigerator is used for marking the food materials input into the refrigerator. The refrigerator and the control m